Falling Out of Love

If you saw the title of my blog post and gasped because you thought I was talking about Shannon, fear not. This love affair started long before I ever met Shannon.

We were introduced by my good friend B-Rock right around the fall of 2005. And for the next eight years I have been faithful (even though there was the dalliance with the British relative)  but it appears that our relationship has finally come to an end.

I am of course, writing about the Office.

Seriously I used to love this show. I remember big groups getting together at McMary's place to watch it every Thursday, beerating Mary when she didn't work the DVR expertly and having Stephanie point out that the best episodes were the ones written by Mindy Kaling. I have three episodes of the office saved on my Tivo that I have not erased in literally years, Valentine's Day, The Injury, and Casino Night. Three of my very favorites. I have seen every episode of this show, stayed totally committed all these years but last Thursday, something happened, as I was watching the show I thought to myself, I don't even like this show.

 The first few seasons I loved the Jim and Pam storyline, and when they finally got married I got the group together again to watch it at McMary's new place, and that was the last time I ever watched the show in a group setting.  But for the last few seasons I have enjoyed it less and less to the point where I was thinking, why do I even watch it anymore. I guess at this point I'm all in so I'll watch it but I certainly won't enjoy it like I used to.

I guess I am not the only one who thinks this way because this is the Office's last season, NBC has decided to put it out of its misery but I think it is a season too late. This is sort of a weird phenomena where a show that I loved gets cancelled and I am not bothered by it. When I list my all time favorite shows to this point when most of them were cancelled I didn't want them to end. They usually run out of show before I run out of interest. I especially felt that way when they cancelled The OC, 24 and Dawson's Creek.

Good bye Office your time has come to and end.

That wasn't easy to write. It was really hard.